Right mouse click moves cursor - if you'll click right mouse button, then the editor cursor will move to a specified position.

Find text at cursor - Places the text at the cursor into the Text To Find list box in the Find Text dialog box when you choose Search|Find. When this option is disabled you must type in the search text, unless the Text To Find list box is blank, in which case the editor still inserts the text at the cursor.

Use syntax highlighting - Enables syntax highlighting. To set highlighting options, use the "Color scheme" page.

Disable dragging - Use the Key Mappings Options to specify key mapping modules and to enable or disable enhancement modules including what order to initialize them.

Show scroll hint - Use a hint over the scroll box while scrolling, which will display top line number.

Other options (when selected)

Tab stops - Set the character columns that the cursor will move to each time you press Tab. If each successive tab stop is not larger than its predecessor, you will receive an error.

Undo limit - undo function can store specified number of last changes only.

End of line symbol - Specify the type of line ending characters. CNC Syntax Editor will save all files with these character.

Display tab

Fig.2. Options window. The "Display" tab

Margin and gutter

Visible gutter - enable/disable visibility of the gutter at the left of an editor window.

Gutter color - guttor background color.

Margin position - maximum line length (in characters) at the right of an editor window.

Highlight - Same as default scheme. Displays reserved words in light blue and code in white. Background is white.

Item

Specifies syntax highlighting for a particular code element. You can choose from the Item list box or click the element in the sample editor.

The element options are:

Command - any G code;

Comment - any string in ( );

Identifier - tool or tool selecting parameters etc;

Number - any digits with dot;

Parameter - any coordinates symbol after G code;

Reserved word - other characters (not numbers) after G code;

Sign - + or - before numbers;

Space - spaces between elements;

Unknown symbols - all others characters

As you change highlighting on various language elements, you can see the effect in the editor labeled Syntax Highlighting.

Foreground/Background Color - Sets the foreground and background colors for the selected code element. The foreground color changes automatically for each element you choose in the Item list box. It is not recommended to choose the same color for the foreground and the background, as you will be unable to read any text.